Events for March
Dryden Roundtable: Oscars 2025 Preview
For the third year in a row, members of the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association will join Curator of Film Exhibitions Jared Case live on stage to preview the following day’s Academy Awards ceremony.
Hundreds of Beavers
Oscar Counter-Programming Among the films that will never be nominated for an Oscar is this zany silent-film throwback that took the cult movie world by storm over the last two years.
Earth (35mm)
Silent Tuesdays A stylized silent “film poem” about the creation of a collective farm and the conflicts between the poor peasants and wealthy landowners in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
Woman of the Year
From Rochester, With Love This first pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy was written by Rochester-born Michael Kanin, along with Ring Lardner, Jr. Tess Harding and Sam Craig (Hepburn and Tracy) are rival journalists at the same New York newspaper — she in politics and he in sports.
Member Movie Night: The Little Foxes (35mm)
Teresa Wright Davis plays Regina, the strong-willed sister of two businessmen in turn-of-the-century Alabama on the verge of closing a deal that will make them all rich.
Matinee: The Wrong Man (35mm)
Henry Fonda for President | Saturday Matinees! Hitchcock based this gripping, often overlooked thriller on the true story of an unassuming bass player whose life becomes a nightmare after he’s misidentified as a hold-up man.
The Lone Wolf Returns (35mm)
Silent Tuesdays Bert Lytell is Michael Lanyard, “The Lone Wolf,” a gentleman burglar created by Louis Joseph Vance in a series of novels. Lytell became a minor film star with this role and turned in four more films as The Lone Wolf through 1930.
The Best Man (35mm)
Henry Fonda for President Gore Vidal’s 1960 play about a presidential campaign that turns exceedingly nasty hasn’t aged a bit: The Best Man recently made a triumphant return to Broadway in a widely acclaimed new production.
Intermezzo (35mm)
From Rochester, With Love Concert violinist Holger Brandt (Leslie Howard) is a man dedicated to two things: his music and his family. That is until he hears the beautiful, talented pianist Anita Hoffman (Ingrid Bergman), his daughter’s music teacher.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (35mm)
From Rochester, With Love There is no more perfect study of avarice gone to obsession and paranoia than Huston's story of a threesome — Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Huston's father Walter — hunting for gold in the mountains of Mexico, where they come face-to-face with bandits, federales, and their own basest instincts.
Casablanca (35mm)
From Rochester, With Love “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman shine as star-crossed lovers in their most iconic roles.
Easy Rider (35mm)
Henry Fonda for President One of a handful of American films of the late 1960s to use the social context of the period to express discontent towards the status quo, Easy Rider follows hippie bikers Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper from somewhere in the west to New Orleans, the promised land of the Mardi Gras.
Fail Safe (35mm)
Henry Fonda for President The Pentagon breaks out in a Cold War cold sweat when a glitch sends a group of Moscow-bound bombers past the point of no return.
Silk Stockings
Make Mine Musicals In this musical remake of Ninotchka, Fred Astaire takes on the role of Steve Canfield, an American film producer who wants Russian composer Peter Ilyitch Boroff to score his next film.
Mrs. Miniver (35mm)
Teresa Wright For her second film, Teresa Wright re-teamed with director William Wyler for this British-based homefront drama starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon.
Home Movie Day
Home Movie Day is a worldwide event that invites the public to see and share their own home movies with an audience from their community.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (35mm)
The Centennial Club Oscar Wilde’s classic tale of the macabre is brought faithfully to the screen by screenwriter-director Albert Lewin.
The Millionaire Vagrant (35mm)
Silent Tuesdays | Recent Acquisitions A recent George Eastman Museum film preservation from 2024, The Millionaire Vagrant is a social drama directed by renaissance man Victor Schertzinger
On Golden Pond (35mm)
Henry Fonda for President . Norman and Ethel Thayer are an aging married couple who keep their annual tradition of summering at their cottage on Golden Pond.